The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) became the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) on January 1, 2013, but many Californians are wondering whether the controversial agency that presided over precipitous declines of chinook salmon, steelhead, Delta smelt and other species will live up to its title and mission any better than it did under its previous name. Read More
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
Looks to be about parallel with the “aka” morphing of MMS Minerals Management Service to BOEMRE or Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Research, and Enforcement (after they were
busted with Shell “executives” at cocaine sex parties a few years ago), then to BOEM Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and BSEE or Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (Watch Out!).
No matter what you call them they are nothing but minions of the corrupt Wind then OIL/GAS “moneyed monster” corporations as they usurp our Outer Continental Shelf for fun and Profit.